Three young women killed in Argentina, livestreamed to private group

Argentine authorities said three women, including a 15-year-old girl, were kidnapped, tortured and murdered last Friday and that the attacks were broadcast live to a private online group, a case that has prompted arrests and widespread public outrage. The bodies of Lara Gutierrez, 15, Brenda del Castillo, 20, and Morena Verdi, 21, were recovered on Wednesday at a property in Florencio Varela, a southern suburb of Greater Buenos Aires, five days after the victims vanished, officials said.

Buenos Aires security minister Javier Alonso said investigators traced the women’s last mobile phone signals and found they had been lured into a vehicle in the La Tablada neighborhood around 9:30 p.m. on Friday, apparently under the pretense of attending an event. Alonso said the trio were taken to a house where they were tortured and killed and that the violence was streamed to a closed group watched by about 45 people. Accounts differ on the social media platform used, with authorities and media variously referring to TikTok and Instagram; Alonso described it broadly as a livestream to a private account.

Preliminary forensic findings and police statements detailed severe injuries. Gutierrez...